[Scribus] Some font questions

[Maciej Hanski]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:22:49 +0200
PLinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> These notes are part of an addtion I am making to the 1.2.2 docs.
> 
> On Monday 06 June 2005 18:41, Maciej Hanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:20:22 +0200
> >
> > Maciej Hanski <ma_han2000 at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> 
> >
> > 2. Luxi Mono, Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif:
> > 	-How much pro quality are these typefaces?
> 
> I've not seen print or PDF related errors in my testing in any of the 
> Luxi fonts. This includes using EPS and PDFs on win32 and Macs.
> 
> > 	-Luxi Serif is a modern typeface, right?
> Yes, and Luxi Sans Mono is a decent mono space font.
> > 	-What are these fonts typically used for?
> >
> Luxi Sans is a great UI font if you like the style. RH8 used this as 
> the default, but used a bit too much anti-aliasing for my taste. RH9 
> was much better.
> 
> Luxi Serif Regular is a bit too narrow or condensed for lengthy text 
> in my opinion, but for call outs or a contrasting section, it works 
> fine. 
> 
> There are true type versions of Luxi available, but be warned they 
> will not display well on Win32 owing to hinting tailored to X11. They 
> will print fine however. The Vera family is somewhat the same.. they 
> look better on a modern X11 release than Win32 in my experience.
> 
> > 	Font sample:
> > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Darmowe_polskie_fonty_przeznaczon
> >e_do_druku#Luxi_Mono
> >
> > 3. URW Gothic L Book and Century Schoolbook L.	These fonts are
> > included into the Ghostscript Standard Package (e.g.  "emerge
> > gnu-gs-fonts-std" on Gentoo) and "cyrrilized" by Valek Filipov
> >
> >   	- How much pro quality are these typefaces?
> >   	- What is Gothic L Book typically used for?
> 
> Gothic is mostly for headline, short bodies of text and can be used 
> for advertising. I've seen the Adobe counterpart, Avant Garde used 
> extensively in advertising, brochures, invitations and other pieces. 
> >
> >        Font samples:
> >       
> > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Darmowe_polskie_fonty_przeznaczon
> >e_do_druku#Century_Schoolbook_L
> > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Darmowe_polskie_fonty_przeznaczon
> >e_do_druku#URW_Gothic_L_Book
> >
> >
> > ANY help will be appreciated
> > Maciej
> >
> 
> It is a mixed bag with  "cyrrilized" fonts based on the URW++ 
> originals.
> 
> There have been many different releases merged into the gs-fonts 
> collection and I also understand the motivation of distros for using 
> them. Good freely available Cyrillic fonts are not wide spread. Bugs 
> in Fontforge have caused issues with some of the releases, which 
> required re-issuing the fonts a few times.
> 
> I know for example, one of the URW++ fonts shipped with Suse 9.x gets 
> dropped on loading in 1.3 with the sanity checks being done by 
> Scribus. Yes, this was duly reported to Suse, as well. 
> 
> Scribus by design (to prevent crashes) and by capability (it does 
> things with fonts few free apps can do). Scribus will be by necessity
> far fussier about fonts than most other apps. 
> 
> I can recommend trying the artifex release of the URW fonts in true 
> type form. Plus there are additional faces which are nicely done like 
> Classico and Coronet.
> 
> Peter

Thank you very much, Peter, that's exactly the answer I've needed :)

Maciej

	

	
		
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